Landscape Rake ?

Caryc

Well-known Member
I live on 5 acres and I have a lot of clear space that I regularly use a rotary mower on. It's pretty clear of small rocks and debris.

Anyway, I want to try to get ahead of the weeds that normally come up every year. I recently purchased a landscape rake with a set of gauge wheels on it. I haven't tried it yet.

I'm waiting until the weeds start growing. When the new stuff starts to sprout and comes up about a half inch high I plan on going over it with the landscape rake. I'm hoping the teeth will rip up the new sprouts or at least damage them enough so they will not continue to grow. I realize that I may have to go over it a few times.

Anyone do anything similar with a landscape rake? Anyone think it might work like I'm hoping it will?
 
That might work if the soil is loose. I have an 8 foot York and it will not dig through sod. You can try adding weight to it changing the attack angle with the top link..
 
(quoted from post at 21:25:39 11/22/18) That might work if the soil is loose. I have an 8 foot York and it will not dig through sod. You can try adding weight to it changing the attack angle with the top link..

The soil is not loose. I'm not talking about anything like sod. This is weed seedlings I guess the seed gets blown mostly by the wind. I'm hoping the tines will scrape the new little seedlings off the surface to keep them from growing. It's pretty flat ground. I've been mowing it for ten years now. Right now it's bare dirt. I'm waiting for the weeds to sprout. They usually come up in patches all over the place.
 
I am betting it will do what you want,, I have had one for years and use it for many things. I would suggest you use it set at a bit of a angle, this will help it do what you want and not just load up the tines but let it move/roll and flow the material through and off the end, just over lap the windrow you leave if any on the next pass, I have found its far batter for spreading gravel and dressing a road than a normal blade. The gauge wheels let you use the top link length to control depth, I would not have one with out them
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I also doubt that a landscape rake will cultivate out many weeds, and will probably just spread weed seeds over a wider area.

What type of weeds do you want to control? Some weeds are easy to control with just close mowing and spraying with 2-4D herbicide (generic Ortho Weed-B-Gone). Tough weeds like Canadian thistles take five years or more to control with very strong herbicides like Tordon and maybe some tillage like moldboard plowing followed by corn and Atrazine herbicide.
 
My experience is that bare ground is a weed magnet...not vice versa. I would vote for spray, rake, add seed, drag in.
 
(quoted from post at 22:28:25 11/22/18)
(quoted from post at 21:25:39 11/22/18) That might work if the soil is loose. I have an 8 foot York and it will not dig through sod. You can try adding weight to it changing the attack angle with the top link..

The soil is not loose. I'm not talking about anything like sod. This is weed seedlings I guess the seed gets blown mostly by the wind. I'm hoping the tines will scrape the new little seedlings off the surface to keep them from growing. It's pretty flat ground. I've been mowing it for ten years now. Right now it's bare dirt. I'm waiting for the weeds to sprout. They usually come up in patches all over the place.

Here are some pics of the area I'm talking about, as I said it's bare dirt now. The little white things you see in the bottom picture are golf balls. My nephew likes to get out there and hit golf balls around

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as for it killing weeds it will only kill them effectively if they are small basically newly sprouted and shallow rooted, you cant let them get bigger I did not think I needed to state that, I do not run for the sprayer on my farm for easy to kill weeds and use different methods and or implements for them depending on their size and what I want to do, my rock rake takes care of any weeds along my dirt roads as long as they are not deep rooted,,
 
(quoted from post at 17:00:29 11/23/18) as for it killing weeds it will only kill them effectively if they are small basically newly sprouted and shallow rooted, you cant let them get bigger I did not think I needed to state that, I do not run for the sprayer on my farm for easy to kill weeds and use different methods and or implements for them depending on their size and what I want to do, my rock rake takes care of any weeds along my dirt roads as long as they are not deep rooted,,

I plan on going over it as soon as I can look out my window and see a green tint on that ground. I used my roll over box blade one year with the blade rolled over backwards. That seemed to work pretty good but left the ground all scarred up with dirt piles all over. I don't have a set of gauge wheels on the box blade. I wish I did.
 
(quoted from post at 18:46:30 11/23/18) Better let the weeds grow looks like nothing else will grow there.

That's the point. I don't want anything to grow there.
 
How bout a simple section of chainlink fence with a couple of railroad ties on top? works good on dry
sandy, decomposed granite "soil". Easy to drag and smooth.
 
All of the landscape rakes that I have seen
have a square end on the times. I believe
they are designed to move loose material,
level, and rake out trash. Some type of
tillage tool I believe would serve you
better, like a field cultivater or disc.
Something that will cut into the top couple
inches of soil and flip the roots up. I
use a field disc set to a shallow depth to
get a good weed and grass kill off. I take
a pass through and if you have dry
conditions it will kill the roots of grass
and weeds that are roots up. Takes me a
couple of cycles to get a good eradication.
 

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